1Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early, and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley, on the north side of the high hill.

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Judges 6:32, Judges 6:32, Genesis 12:6, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Genesis 12:6

2And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.

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Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:17, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 1:27

3Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all: Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men went away from Mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand remained.

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Deuteronomy 20:8, Deuteronomy 20:8, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 17:14, Luke 14:25

4And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.

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Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:16, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Job 23:10

5And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.

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6And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.

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7And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.

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1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 14:6, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:14

8So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he with the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of Madia was beneath him in the valley.

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Joshua 6:4, Numbers 10:9, Leviticus 23:24, Judges 6:33, Leviticus 25:9

9The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.

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Judges 3:28, Acts 18:9, Acts 18:10, Genesis 46:2, Genesis 46:3

10But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara, thy servant, go down with thee.

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Exodus 4:10, Exodus 4:14, Judges 4:8, Judges 4:9, Exodus 4:10

11And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the enemies' camp. And he went down with Phara his servant, into part of the camp, where was the watch of men in arms.

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Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:10, 1 Samuel 23:16, Ezra 6:22, Philippians 4:13

12But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

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Judges 8:10, Judges 6:5, Judges 8:10, Judges 6:5, Judges 6:3

13And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground.

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1 Corinthians 1:27, Judges 4:9, Judges 3:15, Judges 6:15, Judges 3:31

14He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon, the son of Joas, a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.

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Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:9, Numbers 24:10, Numbers 24:13, Job 1:10

15And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.

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2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:6, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:6, Genesis 40:8

16And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

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2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 4:7

17And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.

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1 Corinthians 11:1, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Matthew 16:24, Judges 9:48, 1 Peter 5:3

18When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and to Gedeon.

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2 Chronicles 20:15, 2 Chronicles 20:17, 1 Samuel 17:47, 2 Chronicles 20:15, 2 Chronicles 20:17

19And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.

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Exodus 14:24, Psalms 2:9, Matthew 25:6, Judges 7:16, 1 Thessalonians 5:2

20And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:

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Isaiah 27:13, Isaiah 27:13, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 15:52

21Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:

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Proverbs 28:1, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7, Proverbs 28:1, 2 Kings 7:6

22And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,

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1 Kings 4:12, 1 Kings 4:12, 2 Chronicles 20:23, 1 Kings 19:16, Joshua 6:20

23Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula, in Tebbath. But the men of Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and from all Manasses, pursued after Madian.

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Judges 6:35, Judges 6:35, 1 Samuel 14:21, 1 Samuel 14:22, 1 Samuel 14:21

24And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.

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Judges 3:27, Judges 3:28, Philippians 1:27, John 1:28, Judges 12:5

25And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters of the Jordan.

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Isaiah 10:26, Isaiah 10:26, Judges 8:3, Judges 8:4, Judges 8:3